Le Dr James Douglas, de Québec, remonte le Nil en 1860-61

Includes a biography of the Scottish-born Dr. James Douglas (1800-1886), a Quebec City surgeon, head of the city's Marine and Emigrant Hospital from the 1830s to the 1850s, then head of the Beauport Insane Asylum in the 1840s. Douglas had suffered from respiratory disorders since 1850, and had spent winters in Egypt, Italy, and Palestine from 1851 to 1861.